Re: lockdep and oops_in_progress

[David Miller]

From: Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 06:51:07 +1000

>> commit e0fdace10e75dac67d906213b780ff1b1a4cc360
>> Author: David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Date:   Fri Aug 1 01:11:22 2008 -0700
>>
>>    debug_locks: set oops_in_progress if we will log messages.
>>
>>    Otherwise lock debugging messages on runqueue locks can deadlock the
>>    system due to the wakeups performed by printk().
>>
>>    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
>>
>> Seems we can revert that commit now because of 'robustify printk'.

I completely agree, this can definitely be reverted.

Thanks!
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